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The Differences Between the Weathermen and the Black Militants
By 1970, most inner city black kids would have personally witnessed or participated in a riot. Inner city black kids had a familiarity and comfort with violence that the white student radicals could only fantasize about. The weathermen for all their posturing ended up killing more of themselves than anyone else. They burned down their own neighborhoods because they were bored and angry because it was fun. It is fun to burn down a building. It's a thrill to tell a cop to go fuck himself. You don't have to speculate. A lot of people will tell you like Paul Williams and that seagull quote above. Everyone felt high. Howls of protest at the loss of jobs are accompanied by p